Repressive Policies

The 9/11 Attack as Rationale for Repression

The 9/11 attack has been used as the justification
for an array of hastily-enacted policies which
erode and destroy civil liberties,
attack human rights,
and decrease the accountability of government officials and corporations.
This assault on basic freedoms was ushered in
with
Orwellian claims
that the new War on Terror
was necessary to protect freedom.

A full accounting of even the worst of these abuses is beyond the scope
of 9-11 Research.
Instead, we summarize in broad terms represive policies and actions
that have been forced on citizens of the United States and the world
under the guise of fighting terrorism in the post-9/11 world.

Legislative and Executive Actions

In the section titled
attacks on freedom
we examine the legislative and executive actions that
clothe and attempt to legitimzie the War on Terror.
The 9/11-predicated
legislation
includes, most prominently:

The
Homeland Security Act
passed on November 25th, 2001,
consolated a score of existing federal agencies
into the new Homeland Security Department
while increasing government secrecty, eroding citizens' privacy,
and rewarding special interests.

The
Military Commission Act
passed on October 18th, 2006,
provided the blueprint for extra-constitutional military tribunal system,
and shielded the Bush admistration from lawsuits
stemming from human rights abuses.

A series of
executive orders
dating from Sepember of 2001
has enacted a variety of repressive polices,
many of them later rubber-stamped by legislative actions.

The judiciary branch of the U.S. government
has been a somewhat reluctant player in the
War on Terror,
declaring some of the provisions of the various acts unconstitutional.

Military Actions

The implementation of the post-9/11 agenda through military actions
has proceeded in parallel with the issuance of
legislative and executive decrees endorsing those actions.
Those actions have included: